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Foreign students coming to study in France will now have to pay higher fees. The decree, very controversial, was published in the Official Journal of Sunday, April 21.
The tuition fees of non-European university students will be at least ten times higher than those of their European counterparts.
The two texts published in the Official Journal of Sunday, April 21 indicate that the increase in tuition fees will be applied from the 2019/20/20 academic year.
From September 2019, international students will have to pay € 2,770 for a degree program and € 3,770 for master's programs.
Payments for students enrolled in a public institution in 2018/2019 will not be changed.
Non-European PhD students will not be subject to the new differential tuition rates. Their tuition for 2019/2020 will be 380 €. If they enroll in a doctorate, the French government will continue to bear the brunt of the costs of education until the end of their studies.
Recruit international students
The new policy is part of the French government 's new strategy for recruiting international students. It was announced by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on November 19, 2018.
The published decree lists a series of cases in which non-European students may benefit from total or partial exemptions from higher tuition fees.
They range from "personal situations" to "strategic direction" of universities.
A number of French universities have already announced their intention to boycott the new pricing structure. Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Toulouse, Guyana, Poitiers are among the universities that severely condemn this decree.
These universities will continue to apply the old rates: 170 euros for a bachelor's degree and 243 euros for the masters.
A parliamentary report, published in March, showed how the new policy could be counterproductive in the short term and make less attractive the arrival of non-European students in France.
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